Skycoin documentation

Skycoin is a next-generation cryptocurrency. Contents in this repository document how Skycoin improves upon Bitcoin and what parts of the OP Redecentralize and OP Darknet Plan it is supposed to address.

There are three types of documentation:

1. User guides, tutorials, layman explanations (user-guides folder)
2. Documentation of existing infrastructure and components (docs folder)
3. RFCs, documentation and specifications for future infrastructure and components (future folder)

In this repository hugo is used to generate a static website from markdown files.

Refer to hugo documentation to get started.

Content: Create or Amend Posts

Look in the _data/ folder. Articles are written in markdown.

Locally, the web site can be previewed with:

make run

The web site will be available at http://localhost:1313/ immediately after. Notice that the port may be different if another service is bound to 1313.

To get started make sure that your posts compile without error. Check the formatting.

Then, commit the changes and push.

If there are no problems, then your pages at http://localhost:1313/ will automatically updated in a few minutes.

Themes: Layout and Styling

Skycoin Documentation web site uses a custom hugo theme with styling produced using SCSS, when editing any styles you must edit the .scss files only. If any changes are made to the SCSS partials within static/css/scss/, you must re-compile with the following commands.

Move into the theme directory

  cd themes/skycoin/

Install the dependencies such as node-sass

  yarn
  # or
  npm install

Compile and build the SCSS

  yarn build:css